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Wörterklauer

Lock in red becomes clock in black

Crossword in two colors – the game features 96 double sided letter tiles, one side black, one side red. You choose a color. Players agree on a maximum size for the crossword and can use the timer for their turns. The first player draws 12 letters as general pool, if there is now vowel you set aside four letters and draw four new ones. Then he forms as many words or as long ones as possible with letters from the pool, turned over to his color, in standard crossword manner.

The other player replenishes the pool by drawing letters, again there must be at least one vowel, and then forms words in his turn, in his color. If you can, by adding one or more letters, change the meaning of a word in your opponent’s color, you turn over the word to your color. Once in a game you can use your exchange Joker and remove up to six letters from the pool, draw as many new ones and put the letters you removed back into the box.

At the end of his turn you as the active player must have at least one more letter in his color in the crossword than his opponent. If you cannot manage that your opponent has won.

A challenging game with simple rules, taking over words is the central element – the rules only allow changes of meaning, simply forming the plural version of the word is not enough! The rule book gives lots of examples on how to take over words. The four sides of the box also show examples! One draw-back: the game can end very quickly when there are no suitable letters in the pool, even after using the joker. But you can play another game, because it is such fun to cleverly steal words.

Players: 2

Age: 10+

Time: 20+

Designer: Alex Randolph

Artist: Steffen Mühlhäuser, Bernhard Kümmelmann

Price: ca. 16 Euro

Publisher: Steffen Spiele 2015

Web: www.steffen-spiele.de

Genre: Crossword

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition

First edition Otto Maier Verlag Ravensburg, 1975

Unusual winning condition

Game can be over quickly

Rather chance-dominated

Compares to:

First edition of Wörterklauer, other crossword games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 2

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0